Best solo melee class?

[Goregasmic]

Originally Posted by Ripqozko [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If ya ain't got 10 60s in 2025 after 10 years of velious then maybe you should unplug

Not everyone has been playing 5 hours a day for 10 years.

[Ripqozko]

Originally Posted by Goregasmic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not everyone has been playing 5 hours a day for 10 years.

10 years? thats light weight, this server is 16 years old, its been 10 just in velious.

[zelld52]

Originally Posted by Ripqozko [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If ya ain't got 10 60s in 2025 after 10 years of velious then maybe you should unplug

Yeah because everyone who plays started 10 years ago…

[Ripqozko]

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah because everyone who plays started 10 years ago…

I only talk to folks pre 2016, everyone else is ruining the game

[WarpathEQ]

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Precisely. This isn’t one of us lifers who have multiple 60s and access to DKP bought items.

But every post devolves into “well if you’re on your 9th toon buy a full set of akyshrine, get ring 8, belt of dwarf slaying and you’ll zoom from 5-60 on your paladin.”

Again, the answer is monk. Can level with barely any gear. (Bard is not a melee toon)

Quick someone show this man how to battle bard. Bet a bard could melee their way to 60 faster than a monk could untwinked.

[Vexenu]

Originally Posted by WarpathEQ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Quick someone show this man how to battle bard. Bet a bard could melee their way to 60 faster than a monk could untwinked.

True. Bard melee efficiency is very underrated, probably because it's so much faster to swarm kite for XP, and so much more fun/interesting to charm or play group Bard. But Bards really can melee very effectively with the combination of their self-haste, slow, regen, DS and rune spells (and this is not even factoring in the option of fear kiting).

But if you want to go to the trouble of playing a battle Bard, you might as well just duo/trio with a Monk/Rogue, which is a combo that offers some of the best XP in the game.

[zelld52]

No double attack no thanks

[Naethyn]

There are likely more people here who have access to these items than those who don't so I'm not sure the context is all that far off.

[Vivitron]

Overall bards are the casterest of the hybrids and probably not what someone asking for a melee alt is looking for. I agree with Vexenu that they melee better than people give them credit for, that their solo melee is overshadowed by pbaoe/charm if you're willing to take advantage those, and that a duo/trio with another twink melee can be surprisingly solid.

I have a 57 bard twink I have been slowly leveling. I haven't tried much toe-to-toe, but I have mixed in some attempts at fear+melee (although I have primarily leveled with charm or pbaoe). l was able to clear bloodgills while they were still blue using just fear+melee. I have drums of the beast and lute of the howler, though. Harder to justify melee without those: lute illusion gives 40% haste without costing a song and prime hand drum lets you drum dot while meleeing, so you snare/fear/3xdrum. A similarly geared monk can clear it too, I've heard.

I still mix in some fear+melee when charming, but bloodgills stuck out as one good camp that I could keep clear with just fear+melee. I have recently been trying sebilis entrance; I seem to clear faster when I use more charm relative to melee+fear. Planning to try melee+fear in skyshrine while still leveling, too.

[kjs86z2]

melee with a bard pre epic is doing it wrong